Susan Crawford
Tuesday, May 14th 2013  2:00pm
San Francisco, CA

The Division of Ratepayer Advocates (DRA) will host a thought provoking presentation and dialogue with Roosevelt Institute Fellow, Cardozo Law School Professor, and former Presidential Transition Team member Susan Crawford, who will speak on the state of broadband communications in the United States. Professor Crawford will present ideas from her recent book, Captive Audience -- The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, and will address questions that go to our communications ecology in an Information Age: Should broadband be a public utility service? Is there sufficient competition in the wired communications sector? What about cell phones? Is broadband more expensive (and slower) in the United States than elsewhere in the world and, if so, why is it so expensive and slow? Should cities be allowed to step in and build municipal fiber broadband networks?

Location:
California Public Utilities Commission, Auditorium
505 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA